Scan Enhancement
Turn a phone photo of a document into something that looks like a flatbed scan.
Image tools Client-side Canvas filters
Tool preview
How to use it
- 01
Drop the photo.
- 02
Adjust contrast, brightness and grayscale.
- 03
Enhance and download.
Limitations
- ! This is a colour filter, not perspective correction; skewed pages stay skewed.
- ! Heavy contrast can clip faint pencil marks.
FAQ
What settings work best for text documents?
Contrast around 1.4 and a little brightness lift, with slight grayscale for fax-like output.
Does it remove shadows?
Partially, through contrast; it is not a dedicated shadow removal model.
Is the photo uploaded?
No.
Files never leave your device
Processing happens in your browser using the File API, WebAssembly and Web Workers. There is no upload endpoint.
Technical details
- Processing
- Client-side
- Implementation
- Canvas filters
- Category
- Image tools
- Network requests
- None while processing